I don’t really comprehend how much better it will be when I get the advice or we work on it together than it will be if I go it alone.

The only legit excuse might be #6. Maybe sometimes #8, but not often.

I often write about topics where I need help myself. How else do you think I came up with all of those “excuses” not to ask so quickly?

The killer for me is #1 (probably why it came up first). It’s related to #4. But #12 is pretty important and it’s the main reason I’m working on a book called, well, duh, “Ask.”

The thing is I want to, ahem, ask others about their struggles with asking. See what happened there? I’m going to use my own fear/hesitation/lack of asking to create a book about how we can get better at asking.